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Health data management currently needs a technology refresh in order to provide accurate, reliable and verifiable data for doctors and researchers to decide on the best medications and for the public to have their own dependable health information history as they continue with their daily lives. We propose UPLX (Unified Patient Ledger) as a blockchain-based data platform to securely record, “anonymize” and store patient health data for medical, academic and pharmaceutical research. UPLX is a blockchain powered health data platform which is designed to be interoperable and can be integrated with any hospital information systems (HIS) through API (Application Programming Interface) technology. To this end, a Hyperledger Fabric implementation is described to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposal and its use in healthcare organization. Successful implementation will accelerate the acceptance of Blockchain technology in protecting recorded health data while increasing the efficiency of healthcare delivery.
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The authors acknowledge the support by Malaysia’s Fundamental Research Grant Scheme under FRGS/1/2018/ICT04/UNITAR/03/1.
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Musa, O., Yun, L.S., Ismail, R. (2021). UPLX: Blockchain Platform for Integrated Health Data Management. In: Saeed, F., Mohammed, F., Al-Nahari, A. (eds) Innovative Systems for Intelligent Health Informatics. IRICT 2020. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 72. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70713-2_2
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